Dr. Christian Nold

christian@softhook.com

Dr. Christian Nold is an academic researcher, designer and artist inventing new models and technologies for collective representation. In the last decades he created large-scale public art and design projects such as the widely acclaimed ‘Bio Mapping’, ‘Emotion Mapping’ and ‘Bijlmer Euro’ that have been staged with thousands of participants across sixteen countries. He is a Lecturer in Design at The Open University and was a research fellow at the Social Design Institute (UAL) and the Extreme Citizen Science group (UCL) where he coordinated the H2020 ‘Doing It Together Science’ project. Christian has written numerous books and journal papers including the widely cited ‘Emotional Cartography: Technologies of the Self’.

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Education

2023: FHEA Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK
2011 - 2017: PhD - Device Studies of Participatory Sensing: Ontological Politics and Design Interventions (No Corrections), UCL, London

Participatory Design & Science and Technology Studies analysis of user-driven environmental pollution sensing. Supervisors: Professor Haklay (UCL) and Professor Gabrys (Goldsmiths). Available Online

2002 - 2004: MA - Interaction Design (Distinction), Royal College of Art, London
1996 - 1999: BA - Fine Art Intermedia (First Class), Kingston University, London

Academic Posts and Employment

2021 -: Lecturer in Design Design Group, The Open University

Developing the first BA Design course for the Open University. Research on the knowledge politics of environmental pollution and public ventilation practices.

2020 - 2021: Research Fellow Social Design Institute, University of the Arts London

Researching how social design relates to systems theories. Development of digital social science methods that integrate participatory design.

2016 - 2020: Postdoctoral Research Associate Extreme Citizen Science Group, UCL, London

Project coordinator and evaluation/ethnography of the ‘Doing It Together Science’ EU H2020 project - 11 international partners engaging 4 million EU citizens via 715 public citizen science events. and ‘EU.Citizen-Science’ H2020 project.

2011 - 2015: Research Associate Extreme Citizen Science Group, UCL, London

Researching Citizen Science and public engagement as part of the ‘EveryAware’ EU FP7 project.

2007 - 2012: Founder & Creative Director Softhook Design, London

Directing an interdisciplinary team to create large-scale public art projects around the world.

2005 - 2012: University Teacher The Bartlett, UCL, London

Content development and delivery of the ‘Electronics Clinic’ on physical computing and interactive programming for architects via tutoring and lectures.

2005 - 2006: Part-Time Lecturer London South Bank University

Development, delivery and assessment of an undergraduate module on new media history from early photography to digital media.

2004 - 2005: Part-Time Lecturer IDAT, University of Plymouth

Development, delivery and assessment of two undergraduate modules on interactive programming (MEDA 121) and new media theory and practice (MEDA 125).

2004 - now: Visiting Lecturer

Lectures and workshops at MIT, Yale, Stanford, Royal College of Art, Westminster, UCL, Warwick, Goldsmiths, TU Delft, Aalborg, Middlesex, Edinburgh, Turku, Nottingham, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Plymouth, Birmingham, Universidade federal do Rio de Janeiro, Institute of Leiria, John Moore and Kingston University.

2000 - 2001: Interaction Designer Lowe Broadway, London

Course Development

2021 - now Bachelor of Design (BDes) The Open University, Milton Keynes

Qualification team member (360 credits) and production team member for the T190 module (60 credits). Main author of ‘Algorithmic Design’ and co-author of ‘Image and Layout design’ (33% of the module).

2021 U101 TMA04 The Open University, Milton Keynes
2019 - 2020 Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing Extreme Citizen Science Group, UCL, London

Co-authored the Geography MSc module GEOG0152 as face-to-face and online course.

PhD Supervision & Examination

2022 - 2028 Lead Supervisor The ethical decisions in digital product design Samantha Osys
2022 Upgrade examiner How does creative thinking enable distance design learners in Higher Education to develop and maintain their mental wellbeing? Muriel Sippel

Monographs, Maps and Edited Books

Nold, Christian, Nathalie Aubret, and Susanne Jaschko. 2014. Autopsy of an Island Currency. Warsaw: Pixelache.
Nold, Christian, and Rob van Kranenburg. 2011. The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World. New York: The Architectural League of New York.
Nold, Christian. 2011. Rennes Emotion Map. Rennes: Les Bouillants.
Nold, Christian, ed. 2009. Emotional Cartography: Technologies of the Self. London: Softhook.
Nold, Christian. 2008. East Paris Emotion Map. Paris: Galerie Ars Longa.
Nold, Christian, and Daniela Boraschi. 2007. Stockport Emotion Map. Southampton: Softhook.
Nold, Christian. 2007. San Francisco Emotion Map. San Francisco: Southern Exposure.
Nold, Christian. 2006. Greenwich Emotion Map. Southampton: Independent Photography.
Nold, Christian. 2001. Mobile Vulgus. London: Bookworks.

Journal Papers

Nold, Christian. “Typology of Emotion Assemblages in Art and Science.” Leonardo, vol. 56, no. 3, June 2023, pp. 266–71, https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_02314.
Nold, Christian, et al. “Twelve Potluck Principles for Social Design.” Discern: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship, vol. 3, no. 1, 2022, pp. 31–43, https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/view/75.
Willis, Katharine S., and Christian Nold. “Sense and the City: An Emotion Data Framework for Smart City Governance.” Journal of Urban Management, vol. 11, no. 2, 2022, pp. 142–52, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jum.2022.05.009.
Haklay, Muki, Dilek Fraisl, Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Susanne Hecker, Margaret Gold, Gerid Hager, Luigi Ceccaroni, et al. 2021. “Contours of Citizen Science: A Vignette Study.” Royal Society Open Science 8 (8): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.202108.
Nold, Christian. 2021. “Insurrection Training for Post-Human Politics.” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 41 (3/4): 541–57. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJSSP-03-2020-0066.
Katherin Wagenknecht, Tim Woods, Christian Nold, Simone Rüfenacht, Silke Voigt-Heucke, Anne Caplan Susanne Hecker, and Katrin Vohland. 2021. “A Question of Dialogue? Reflections on How Citizen Science Can Enhance Communication between Science and Society.” Journal of Science Communication 20 (3). https://doi.org/10.22323/2.20030213.
Göbel, Claudia, Christian Nold, Aleksandra Berditchevskaia, and Mordechai Haklay. 2019. “How Does Citizen Science Do Governance? Reflections from the DITOs Project.” Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 4 (1): 1–13. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.204.
Skarlatidou, Artemis, Marisa Ponti, James Sprinks, Christian Nold, Muki Haklay, and Eiman Kanjo. 2019. “User Experience of Digital Technologies in Citizen Science.” Journal of Science Communication 18 (01): 1–8. https://doi.org/10.22323/2.18010501
Skarlatidou, Artemis, Monika Suskevics, Claudia Göbel, Baiba Prūse, Andre Mascarenhas, Marzia Mazzonetto, Alice Sheppard, et al. 2019. “The Value of Stakeholder Mapping to Enhance Co-Creation in Citizen Science Initiatives.” Citizen Science: Theory and Practice 4 (1): 1–10. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.226.
Nold, Christian. 2018. “Practice-Based Ontological Design for Multiplying Realities.” Strategic Design Research Journal 11 (2): 58–64. https://doi.org/10.4013/sdrj.2018.112.02.
Nold, Christian. 2018. “Bio Mapping: How Can We Use Emotion to Articulate Cities?” Livingmaps Review, no. 4: 1–16. http://livingmaps.review/journal/index.php/LMR/article/view/103.
Blok, Anders, Kelton Minor, Rolien Hoyng, Marquet Clément, Kelton Minor, Christian Nold, and Meg Young. 2017. “Data Platforms and Cities.” Tecnoscienza 8 (2): 175–219. http://www.tecnoscienza.net/index.php/tsj/article/view/323.
Nold, Christian. 2015. “Micro/Macro Prototyping.” International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 81 (C): 72–80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2015.02.004.
Crabtree, Louise, Christian Nold, Kaye Shumack, and Jason Tuckwell. 2011. “Transport Mapping: Emotional Cartography, Mobility and the Body Politics of Place.” Global Media Journal - Australian Edition 5 (2).
Nold, Christian, John Tweddle, Rebecca Ellis, Drew Hemment, and Brian Whynne. 2011. “Biotagging Manchester: Interdisciplinary Exploration of Biodiversity.” Leonardo 44 (1): 66–67. https://doi.org/10.1162/LEON_a_00098.

Book Chapters

Nold, Christian, and Karolina Sobecka. “Aesthetic Strategies for Engaging with Environmental Governance.” Routledge Handbook of Art, Science & Technology Studies, edited by Hannah Star Rogers et al., Routledge, 2021, pp. 91–101, https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429437069-6.
Nold, Christian. 2020. “Taxonomy of Environmental Sensing in Smart Cities.” In The Routledge Companion to Smart Cities, edited by Katharine S. Willis and Alessandro Aurigi, 254–61. Abingdon & New York: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315178387.
Nold, Christian. 2018. “Turning Controversies into Questions of Design: Prototyping Alternative Metrics for Heathrow Airport.” In Inventing the Social, edited by Noortje Marres, Michael Guggenheim, and Alex Wilkie, 94–124. Manchester: Mattering Press. https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10082160.
Nold, Christian. 2016. “Metrics of Unrest: Building Social and Technical Networks for Heathrow Noise.” In The Restless Compendium: Interdisciplinary Investigations of Rest and Its Opposites, edited by Felicity Callard, Kimberley Staines, James Wilkes, 149–56. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45264-7_18.
Nold, Christian, and Louise Francis. 2016. “Participatory Sensing: Recruiting Bipedal Platforms or Building Issue-Centred Projects?” In Participatory Sensing, Opinions and Collective Awareness, edited by Vittorio Loreto, Muki Haklay, Andreas Hotho, Vito C.P. Servedio, Gerd Stumme, Jan Theunis, and Francesca Tria, 213–35. Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25658-0_11.
Nold, Christian. 2014. “Devices for Articulate Propositions.” In Stressed Out, edited by Mike Thomson, 34–39. Eindhoven, the Netherlands: Design Academy Eindhoven.
Nold, Christian. 2005. “Legible Mob.” In Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy, edited by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel, 846–53. Karlsruhe and Cambridge: ZKM Center for Art and Media with the MIT Press.

Public Reports

Nold, C., et al. Citizen Science Study of Overflight Noise from New and Old Generation Aircraft at London City Airport. 2023, https://doi.org/10.21954/mtkx-h460.
Kimbell, Lucy, Jocelyn Bailey, Christian Nold, Patrycja Kaszynska, Jonathan Todd, and Francesco Mazzarella. 2021. “Design Economy 2021 Scoping Project: Introductory Paper.” London. Online.
Nold, Christian, Patrycja Kaszynska, and Jocelyn Bailey. 2021. “Design Economy 2021 Scoping Project: Public Understanding of Design.” London. Online.
Nold, Christian. 2021. “Towards a Sociomaterial Framework for Systems in Design.” 2. Social Design Institute. London. Online.
Nold, Christian. 2021. “Towards a Typology of Design in Relation to Prisons.” 1. Social Design Institute. London. Online.
Haklay, Muki, Alice Motion, Bálint Balázs, Barbara Kieslinger, Tzovaras Greshake Bastian, Christian Nold, Daniel Dörler, et al. 2020. “ECSA’s Characteristics of Citizen Science.” Online.
Nold, Christian. 2019. “A Tale of Two Science Buses: Diversity of Knowledge and Inclusion Practices.” Online

Conference Proceedings

Nold, Christian. “Program or Be Programmed? Teaching Algorithmic Principles to Future Designers.” The 7th International Conference for Design Education Researchers, edited by Lesley-Ann Noel Derek Jones, Naz Borekci, Violeta Clemente, James Corazzo, Nicole Lotz, Liv Merete Nielsen, 2023, https://doi.org/10.21606/drslxd.2024.059.
Nold, Christian. “Mapping and Sensing Dewey’s Situations as Design and Social Science Methods.” Nordes 2023: This Space Intentionally Left Blank, 12-14 June, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden., edited by S. Holmlid et al., 2023, https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2023.76.
Nold, Christian. “The Politics of Metadesign.” Design Research Society Conference 2022 in Bilbao, edited by D. Lockton et al., DRS, 2022, https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.260.
Bailey, Jocelyn, Patrycja Kasynska, Lucy Kimbell, and Christian Nold. 2021. “12 Principles of Social Design.” In Nordes 2021 Matters of Scale, edited by Eva Brandt, Thomas Markussen, Eeva Berglund, Guy Julier, and Per Linde, 488–90. Kolding, Denmark: Nordes.
Nold, Christian. 2013. “Mapping Disagreement around Smart City Devices.” In Subtle Revolution 2nd International Hybrid City Conference, edited by D. Charitos, I. Theona, D. Dragona, H. Rizopoulos, and M. Meimaris, 133–40. Athens: University Research Institute of Applied Communications.

Academic Editing, Reviewing and Memberships

2024 Reviewer for Intelligent Buildings International Journal
2024 Reviewer for CoDesign Journal
2023 Reviewer for Learn X Conference
2023 Reviewer for Nordes 2023 Conference
2022 Co-Organiser of the Metadesign Track at DRS 2022
2022 Conference PhD Mentor DRS 2022
2022 Member and reviewer for the Design Research Society
2018-21 Member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology
2015-21 Council Member of the Internet of Things Council,
2018 Reviewer for JCOM journal
2015 Editor at large - Living Maps Review Journal
2015 Reviewer for Internet of Things Conference
2015 Reviewer for Leonardo Journal
2013 Reviewer for Mobilities Journal

Funding Bids

2018 DoomsDay BlockChain Co-wrote bid & named researcher. Budget £20,000.
2018 Beacon Bursary Budget £2,000.
2016 DITOs Co-wrote bid & named researcher. Budget €4M. Value to me: £100,000. Funded by EU H2020.
2014 Hubbub Co-wrote bid & named researcher. Budget £1M. Value to me: £10,000 supported by Wellcome Trust.
2012 Inclusion Award Principal investigator. Budget: £15,000 supported by UCL.
2011 Money Lab Co-investigator. Value to me £46,000 supported by City of Helsinki and Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture and British Council.
2010 Spatialities and practices of sharing Named Collaborator. Value: £8,000 supported Western Sydney University.
2009 The Bijlmer Euro Co-investigator. Value to me £37,000 supported by Mondrian Foundation and Stichtung Doen.
2009 Sensory Journeys Co-investigator. Value to me £45,000 supported by Arts Council England
2009 Sensing the Future of Hedehusene Principal investigator. Value to me: £65,000 supported by Copenhagen International Theatre.
2007 Mapping Change for Sustainable Communities Named researcher. Value to me: £15,000 supported by Higher Education Funding Council for England.
2007 Creative Mapping Named researcher. Value to me: £6,000 supported by Arts Council England.
2006 Bio Mapping Principal investigator. Budget: £15,000 supported by Wellcome Trust.

Large-scale Public Commissions

2018 - 2019 DoomsDay Blockchain, Collusion, Cambridge

Artistic research exploring blockchain insertions. https://ddbc.io
2014 - 2016 Hubbub, Wellcome Trust, London

Citizen monitoring network to materialise the impact of Heathrow airport.
2011 - 2014 Money Lab, Pixelache, Helsinki, Finland

Three-year experimental local currency for a Finnish fortress island.
2010 - 2011 Rennes Emotion Map, Les Bouillants, Rennes, France
2010 Control Maps, Impakt Festival, Utrecht, Arnheim & Enschede, Holland

Participatory mapping project to visualise ‘control’ in three Dutch cities.
2009 - 2010 The Bijlmer Euro, Imagine IC, Amsterdam, Holland

15-month experimental RFID parasite local currency that supports local identity
2009 - 2010 Sensory Journeys, Sustrans, Bristol, UK

Participatory mapping with three schools to trace children travel experience.
2009 Sensing the Future of Hedehusene, Copenhagen International Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark

Town-scale air & noise pollution monitoring network with real-time citizen voting.
2009 BioTagging Manchester, Futuresonic, Manchester, UK

Citizen Science collaboration with Natural History Museum and Meteorological Office.
2009 Bethlehem Biopsy, Bethlehem University, Bethlehem, USA

Participatory mapping involving hundred residents and local government to create urban visualisation.
2008 Geneva Biopsy, HES-SO Geneva, Geneva, CH
2008 Complexity Maps, World Design Capital, Turin, Italy

Summer school visualising heroin trade networks with 30 international design students.
2008 Strange Weather, Studio for Urban Projects, Berkeley Art Museum, USA

Winner of the Eyebeam EcoViz competition.
2008 Emotional Tourism?, Santiago de Compostela Council, Spain
2007 Networked Identity, BBC Blast, Serpentine Gallery & Science Museum, London
2007 Bio Mapping, Hayward Gallery Projects, Brixton & Clapham, London
2006 - 2007 Bio Mapping, Wellcome Trust Sciart R&D Grant, London
2008 The Brentford Biopsy, Watermans Gallery, London
2008 Emotion Map East Paris, Arslonga Gallery, Paris, France
2007 - 2008 Creative Mapping, Iniva, London
2007 Stockport Emotion Map, Stockport Council & Lendlease, Stockport, UK
2007 San Francisco Emotion Map, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, USA
2006 - 2007 Mapping Fulham, Fulham NDC, London
2005 - 2006 Greenwich Emotion Map, Independent Photography, London

Group Exhibitions

2016 Prototyping a new Heathrow Airport, Rest and its discontents, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, UK
2016 Prototyping a new Heathrow Airport, Rest and its discontents, Wellcome Trust, London, UK
2016 Stockport Emotion Map, Loitering with Intent – The Art and Politics of Walking in Manchester and Beyond, People’s History Museum, Manchester, UK
2016 Sensory Journeys, Deep Design, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA
2014 EmotionMaps, Cities Methodologies, UCL, London
2013 Suomenlinna Kuula, Pixelache Festival, Helsinki, Finland
2012 EmotionMaps, Sensing Place. Meditizing the Urban Landscape House of Electronic Arts, Basel, CH
2011 Bijlmer Euro, Mal au Pixel, Paris, France
2011 Bio Mapping, Re-Drawing Boundaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
2011 Bio Mapping, You Are Here, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2009 Bio Tagging, Futuresonic Festival, Manchester, UK
2008 The Brentford Biopsy, Watermans Gallery, Brentford, UK
2008 RFID Map, Surveillance and Discipline, Pristina, Kosovo
2008 Community Metrics, The Big Draw, UCL, London
2008 Community Metrics, Radiator Festival, Nottingham, UK
2008 Man in the Crowd, Close to the Surface, Camberwell College, London
2008 Man in the Crowd, Close to the Surface, ICA, London
2008 Bio Mapping, W(e are) here, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, USA
2008 Strange Weather, Eco-Vis Eyebeam Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Bio Mapping, Zoom +/-, Limn Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2007 Bio Mapping, Emotional Systems, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2007 Bio Mapping, Digitally Yours Aboa Vetus Ars Nova museum, Turku, Finland
2007 Bio Mapping, Dislocate, Ginza, Tokyo, Japan
2007 Bio Mapping, Zoom +/-, Area 1, Santa Monica, USA
2006 Bio Mapping, Fete Promise, CCC, Tours, France
2006 Bio Mapping, CrashtestDummy, Munich, Germany
2006 Bio Mapping, CrashtestDummy, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2006 Bio Mapping, Always On, Sonar, Barcelona, Spain
2006 Bio Mapping, ITTACA, Marcel Hicter Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
2006 Bio Mapping, The Information, London Gallery West, London
2006 Bio Mapping, City Breaks? Art and Culture in Times of Expediency, Liverpool Biennial, UK
2006 Bio Mapping, Day to Day Data, Danielle Arnaud, London
2005 Bio Mapping, State of Mind, Bios LSE, London
2005 Bio Mapping, Day to Day Data, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2005 Bio Mapping, Day to Day Data, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
2005 Crowd Compiler, Making Things Public, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2004 Bio Mapping, Tactical Urban Map Hack, Deaf 04, Rotterdam, Holland
2004 Bio Mapping, Sienna Design project, Sienna, Italy
2004 Bio Mapping, The Show, Royal College of Art, London

Keynote and Invited Lectures

Situating Scale in ANT – revisiting Boa Vista, Jun 2023 at STS Italia, Bologna
Dewey’s situations as Design and Social Science Methods, Jun 2023, Nordes conference, Sweden
Bring textual wishes to life, Mar 2023, ChatGPT and Friends at the OU, UK
Doing Politics from Our Bodies Upwards, Nov 2022 at OU Eco-Creativity conference UK
Viruses, Pollen and Dust, Oct 2022 at N Family in London
Testing Protocols in Citizen Science, Jul 2022, EASST 2022 conference Madrid
The Politics of Metadesign, 27th Jun, DRS 2022 conference, Bilbao
Citizen Science for Controversies, 26th May 2022, Citizen Science for all talks, HEIDI, London
Exploring Social Design Principles, 31st Mar 2022, UAL Research Season, UAL, London
Towards a Socio-material Framework for Systems in Design, 14th Sep 2021, Meta-Design. Rethinking Design to Address the Complexity of Current and Future Global Challenges, DRS Festival of Emergence
12 Principles of Social Design Workshop, 17th Aug 2021, Nordes Design Conference, Kolding, Denmark
Emotional Cartography, 27th May 2021, Association of Architectural Quality Development, Vilnius, Lithuania
Cultural Translations, 20th May 2021, MGC TALKS!, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal
Building and Intervening in Collectives, 19th Oct 2020, ADA Masters Lecture, Plymouth University
Encounters for co-creation of Citizen Science Teaching, 7th Sep 2020, ECSA 2020, Trieste, Italy
Hegemony, counter-hegemony and ontological politics, 21th Aug 2020, EASST 4S, Prague, Czech Republic
Over-identification as Ethnographic approach for challenging the contradictions of Citizen Science, 20th Aug 2020, How Can STS Support A Multiplicity Of Practices In Citizen Science?, EASST 4S, Prague
Ontological Design for New Politics at Heathrow, 9th Nov 2019, The Politics of Air, Watermans Arts Centre, London
Mirroring and Irritant Synthesis, 6th Sep 2019, 4S Conference, New Orleans, US
What Post-Anarchist Ontology can bring to Environmental Justice, 30th Aug 2019, RGS Conference, London
-Keynote- How can we Re-specify the Digital?, 27th Jun 2019, CIM Conference, Warwick
Ontological Design for Intervening in Everyday Realities, 31st Aug 2018, RGS Conference, Cardiff
Ontological Switches of Smart Cities, 29th Aug 2018, RGS Conference, Cardiff
Intervening in Data Infrastructure using Ontological Switches, 27th Jul 2018, EASST Conference, Lancaster
Neo-Environmental Sensing: Ontological approaches to Public Data, 15th May 2018, Toxic Expertise (In)visibility and Pollution workshop, Warwick University
A Personal History of Locative Media, 15th Mar 2018, Cambridge Science Festival, Cambridge
A Personal History of Locative Media, 5th Mar 2018, Edinburgh University, Edinburgh
Pollution as Ontological Design Problem, 22nd Jan 2018, Citizen Science Lab: Air Pollution, Lorentz Center Leiden
The Politics of Maker Prototypes: Scientific Governance or Anarchist Prefiguration?, 23rd Nov 2017, STS and Politics workshop, Copenhagen University
Ontological Design, 16th May 2017, Interactivos?’17, Medialab Prado Madrid
-Keynote- Art and Education, 4th Nov 2016, II CULTURE FORUM Burgos, Spain
-Keynote- How can we Design Meaningful and Political Data?, 21st April 2016, Design & the City, Amsterdam
Humans as bipedal sensor platforms?, 12th May 2015, Understanding Participants, British Ecological Society, London
Sensing the Smart City, 12th Mar 2015, IOT Summit 2015, London
Smart Cities Case Study - Bijlmer Euro, 30th Nov 2014, Could Cambridge be a smarter city?, Collusion, Cambridge, UK
Towards a Design based Ethnographic Method for Environmental Controversies, 18th Sep 2014, EASST Conference, Torun, Poland
What does Citizen Science Allow?, 2nd Jul 2014, Citizen Science: Fit for the Future?, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK
Recruitment for Environmental Monitoring, 21st Feb 2014, Citizen Cyberscience Summit, UCL, London
Citizen Science as a Device Practice, 28th Jan 2014, The data practices of citizen science, Goldsmiths University, London
What is Being Sensed?, 21st Jan 2014 Dagstuhl Seminars, Germany
What is Being Mapped and to What Ends?, 14th Jan 2014 Living Maps Seminars, The Young Foundation, London
More-Than-Human Participatory Research, 12th Dec 2013, Birmingham, UK
What does Mapping, Map?, 25th Nov 2013, In the midst of things, Royal College of Art, London
More-than-Human Participation, 30th Aug 2013, Royal Geographical Society, London
Mapping Emotional Change, 25th Jun 2013, Prince’s Trust Geography Summer School, Cambridge, UK
Environmental Monitoring?, 12th Oct 2012, Birmingham School of Architecture, UK
What is Being Mapped and to What Ends?, 20th Sep 2012, London Mapping Seminar, DPU, UCL, London
Sensory Journeys, 19th Mar 2012, Smell & The City, Manchester University, UK
Emotional Cartography, 27th Nov 2011, Compass Live Art Symposium, East Street Arts, Leeds
Feeling London, 9th Nov 2011, London Incorporated, Gordon Museum of Pathology, London
Bijlmer Euro, 8th Oct 2011, MoneyLab, The Beach, Amsterdam, Holland
Emotional Cartographies, 19th Sep 2011, Geography Summer School Prince’s Trust, Harrogate, UK
Sensing Place, 4th Sep 2011, Ars Electronica Linz, Austria
Emotional Cartography, 24th Jul 2010, Mission:Explore, Secret Garden Party, UK
-Keynote- Bijlmer Euro, 6th Jul 2010, Mapfest: Mapping for Change, Mediamatic, Holland
Bijlmer Euro, 10th Jun 2010, TEDx Eutropolis, Heerlen, Holland
The Internet of People for a Post-Oil World, 1st June 2010, Internet of Things 2010, Brussels, Belgium
Bijlmer Euro, 25th Sep 2009, Picnic ’09, Amsterdam, Holland
Emotion Maps, 7th June 2008, Psycho-Geography, Cheltenham Science Festival, UK
-Keynote- Locative Media Autopsy, 28th Feb 2008, The Mobile City Conference, Rotterdam Architecture Institute, Netherlands
Emotion Maps, 2nd Feb 2008, Nextcity: The Art of the Possible, New Museum, New York
RFID Map, 29th Oct 2007, Picnic ’07, Amsterdam, Holland
Bio Mapping, 17th Oct 2007, PopTech 2007, Camden, USA
Emotional Mapping, 19th Apr 2007, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, USA
Emotional Cartography, 6th Sep 2006, Society of Cartographers Conference, Keele, UK
Bio Mapping, 25th Aug 2006, Art + Communication, RIXC, Riga, Latvia
Re. Computing 101B seminar, Feb 2005, Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Bio Mapping, 27th Aug 2004, Trans-Cultural Mapping, NIFCA, Suomenlinna, Finland
Bio Mapping, 6th Jun 2004, NotCon ’04, London
Counter Mapping, 27th Feb 2004, Neuro networking europe, Munich, Germany
Mobile Vulgus, 12th Sep 2003, Next 5 Minutes, Amsterdam, Holland

Work has been featured by:

CNN, New Scientist, BBC World Service, BBC, Discovery Channel, Slashdot, Art Forum, Guardian, The Observer, Art Monthly, Digicult, Washington Post, Boing Boing, Mute Magazine, Sleazenation, Telepolis, British Council, Sud Deutsche Zeitung, Chinese FHM, Dagbladet, Denver Post, Fast Company, Fibreculture, Furtherfield, LA Times, Liberation, Metro, Salt Lake Tribune, Time Out, USA Today, World Changing, Core77, We-Make-Money-Not-Art, Fast Company, Wonderland, Tank Magazine